The passage below is excerpted from The Bottom Line section of Reaching for Hope: Strategies and support for the partners of transgender people. Listen More Than You Talk Imagine finding out your beloved suffered a physical or emotional injury, and you never knew about it. Let’s say they’d been assaulted or were the victim of a hit and run years ago, and finally decided to talk about it. How would you handle discussions about their experience? Chances are you’d do a lot of li

Two weeks ago I was the guest preacher at Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida. Last Sunday the church was protested by right-wing fundamentalists who don't appreciate the messages of love and social justice the church posts on their street-side sign. In the week between these two Sundays, Rev. Andy Oliver was bombarded by accusations of pedophilia and "grooming" in tirades across social media platforms and other venues. The hurling of the term "groome